Category guide

AI developer tools for coding, debugging and shipping

Developer tools span code assistants, debugging helpers, agents, infrastructure utilities and interfaces for building AI applications. The right starting question is not which tool writes the most code. It is which part of your development loop needs help, and what evidence would show that the change is safe to merge. Use this category to build a shortlist around that job.

A useful evaluation begins in a disposable repository with a bounded task. Ask the tool to explain the existing behaviour, make a small change and run relevant checks. Inspect the patch yourself. Look for unrelated edits, new dependencies, missing tests and assumptions about credentials. Code that looks plausible in a demonstration may still fail against the versions and conventions in your actual project.

Compare permission boundaries carefully. Some products offer suggestions inside an editor; others execute commands or connect to remote services. Check what repository data leaves your environment, how access is revoked and whether destructive steps need confirmation. For self-hosted options, include model hosting, compute, upgrades and maintenance in the cost rather than treating the software licence as the whole budget.

Integration details often decide whether a tool becomes a habit. Confirm language support, compatibility with your build system, usable logs and a clean way to revert changes. Evaluate whether another teammate can reproduce the result. A good assistant should make review easier, not require you to trust an opaque sequence of actions. Keep production secrets out of trial prompts and use limited test credentials when integrations are necessary.

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Live Developer Tools listings

Alphabetical by name. These positions are not paid placements.

  1. 01
    agent-desktopOpen Source

    Computer use CLI for AI agents

    Developer ToolsFree21,808 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  2. 02

    Plan, run and supervise fleets of agents from task to merged PR

    Developer ToolsFree14,434 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  3. 03
    aiderOpen Source

    aider is AI pair programming in your terminal

    Developer ToolsFree50,062 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  4. 04
    anti-slopOpen Source

    Rules for an AI coding agent to filter out generic AI-generated UI designs, text, and code

    Developer ToolsFree8,928 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  5. 05
    ANUSOpen Source

    It runs on the smartest free model that is up today

    Developer ToolsFree6,563 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  6. 06
    AutoGPTOpen Source

    AutoGPT is the vision of accessible AI for everyone, to use and to build on

    Developer ToolsFree187,991 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  7. 07

    Full-stack apps from a prompt, running in the browser without a local setup.

    Developer ToolsFreemiumno-code
    3,180upvotes
  8. 08
    cc-switchOpen Source

    A cross-platform desktop All-in-One assistant for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode,DeepSeek Harness and more

    Developer ToolsFree153,595 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  9. 09
    chatboxOpen Source

    Powerful AI Client

    Developer ToolsFree42,299 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  10. 10

    An agentic coding tool that lives in the terminal and works like a colleague.

    Developer ToolsPaidterminal
    5,740upvotes
  11. 11
    claudecodeuiOpen Source

    Use Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor CLI, and Codex on mobile and web with CloudCLI (aka Claude Code UI)

    Developer ToolsFree14,561 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  12. 12
    clineOpen Source

    Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant

    Developer ToolsFree71,522 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  13. 13
    codexOpen Source

    Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

    Developer ToolsFree134,879 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  14. 14
    command-codeOpen Source

    Command Code AI — the best coding agent for open models

    Developer ToolsFree4,232 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  15. 15
    context-modeOpen Source

    Free, local plugin that keeps tool output out of your coding agent's context window

    Developer ToolsFree33,863 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  16. 16
    context7Open Source

    Context7 Platform -- Up-to-date docs for AI agents

    Developer ToolsFree64,590 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  17. 17
    continueOpen Source

    open-source coding agent

    Developer ToolsFree36,459 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  18. 18
    coze-loopOpen Source

    Next-generation AI Agent Optimization Platform: Cozeloop addresses challenges in AI agent development by providing full-lifecycle management…

    Developer ToolsFree5,803 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  19. 19

    A VS Code fork rebuilt around an agent that edits your whole repo.

    Developer ToolsFreemiumide
    6,980upvotes
  20. 20

    A reliable coding agent for complex software engineering tasks

    Developer ToolsFree36,156 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  21. 21
    desktop-cc-guiOpen Source

    Multi-engine AI coding desktop client (Tauri)

    Developer ToolsFree4,594 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  22. 22

    An autonomous engineer you assign tickets to, not prompts.

    Developer ToolsPaidautonomous
    1,960upvotes
  23. 23
    devspaceOpen Source

    Minimal Coding Agent Harness on MCP for ChatGPT, Claude, Hermes, Grok Bot, OpenClaw

    Developer ToolsFree5,463 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  24. 24

    Docker container running Transmission torrent client with WebUI over an OpenVPN tunnel

    Developer ToolsFree4,576 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  25. 25
    gemini-cliOpen Source

    An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal

    Developer ToolsFree108,774 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  26. 26

    The default AI pair programmer, now inside the editor, the CLI and the review.

    Developer ToolsFreemiumcoding
    7,640upvotes
  27. 27
    golutraOpen Source

    Multi-agent AI orchestration platform for automation, workflows, and developer tools

    Developer ToolsFree3,865 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  28. 28
    gpt-pilotOpen Source

    The first real AI developer

    Developer ToolsFree33,642 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  29. 29
    gpt4freeOpen Source

    The official gpt4free repository | various collection of powerful language models | opus 4.6 gpt 5.3 kimi 2.5 deepseek v3.2 gemini 3

    Developer ToolsFree67,031 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  30. 30
    heliconeOpen Source

    🧊 Open source LLM observability platform

    Developer ToolsFree6,277 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  31. 31
    infisicalOpen Source

    Infisical is the open-source platform for securing secrets, certificates, access, and AI Agents

    Developer ToolsFree30,422 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  32. 32
    InsForgeOpen Source

    The all-in-one, open-source backend platform for agentic coding

    Developer ToolsFree13,325 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  33. 33
    jcodeOpen Source

    High performance coding agent harness written in Rust, built for heavy multi-agent dev workflows

    Developer ToolsFree21,696 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  34. 34
    kilocodeOpen Source

    Kilo is the all-in-one agentic engineering platform

    Developer ToolsFree27,943 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  35. 35
    kubesharkOpen Source

    eBPF-powered network observability for Kubernetes

    Developer ToolsFree12,135 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  36. 36
    lamdaOpen Source

    Android Full-Stack Device Control Platform: WebRTC/H.264 remote desktop, UI/OCR/image-matching automation, one-click MITM, built-in Frida,…

    Developer ToolsFree8,724 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  37. 37
    langfuseOpen Source

    🪢 Open source AI engineering platform: AI Gateway, agent observability, evals, and prompt/skill management, built on OpenTelemetry

    Developer ToolsFree37,301 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  38. 38
    llama.cppOpen Source

    LLM inference in C/C++

    Developer ToolsFree134,066 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  39. 39
    LlamaFactoryOpen Source

    Unified Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100+ LLMs & VLMs (ACL 2024)

    Developer ToolsFree75,998 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  40. 40
    LobsterAIOpen Source

    Open-source, desktop-grade AI agent that gets real work done — data analysis, slides, docs, video & web research

    Developer ToolsFree6,179 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  41. 41
    LocalAIOpen Source

    Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware

    Developer ToolsFree50,317 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  42. 42
    lollms-webuiOpen Source

    Lord of Large Language and Multi modal Systems Web User Interface

    Developer ToolsFree4,794 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  43. 43
    LongMemoryOpen Source

    Local persistent memory store for LLM applications including claude desktop, github copilot, codex, antigravity, etc

    Developer ToolsFree4,573 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  44. 44

    A chat-first builder for people who want a product, not a pull request.

    Developer ToolsFreemiumno-code
    2,870upvotes
  45. 45
    medusaOpen Source

    The world's most flexible commerce platform for agents and developers

    Developer ToolsFree37,180 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  46. 46
    mlflowOpen Source

    The open source AI engineering platform for agents, LLMs, and ML models

    Developer ToolsFree28,761 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  47. 47
    munder-difflinOpen Source

    an open-source alternative to the dots, bots and muses of the world, run an office of claude code/codex like agents on your laptop, sandboxes or…

    Developer ToolsFree9,487 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  48. 48
    nacosOpen Source

    an easy-to-use dynamic service discovery, configuration and service management platform for building AI cloud native applications

    Developer ToolsFree33,516 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  49. 49
    nanobrowserOpen Source

    Open-source AI agent for web automation

    Developer ToolsFree14,287 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  50. 50
    nginx-uiOpen Source

    Yet another WebUI for Nginx

    Developer ToolsFree11,758 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  51. 51
    oh-my-piOpen Source

    ⌥ Coding agent with the IDE wired in. Built by Stencil Labs

    Developer ToolsFree38,669 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  52. 52
    ollamaOpen Source

    Get up and running with Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models

    Developer ToolsFree186,649 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  53. 53
    omnigentOpen Source

    Omnigent is an open-source AI agent framework and meta-harness: orchestrate Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Pi, and custom agents — swap harnesses…

    Developer ToolsFree11,334 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  54. 54
    OmniRouteOpen Source

    Free MIT AI gateway: one endpoint, 375 providers (150+ free), 1,400+ models Kimi, Claude, GPT, Gemini, GLM, DeepSeek, MiniMax

    Developer ToolsFree86,442 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  55. 55
    opcodeOpen Source

    A powerful GUI app and Toolkit for Claude Code - Create custom agents, manage interactive Claude Code sessions, run secure background agents, and more

    Developer ToolsFree22,436 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  56. 56
    openagentOpen Source

    ⚡️next-generation personal AI assistant powered by LLM, RAG and agent loops, supporting computer-use, browser-use and coding agent, demo:

    Developer ToolsFree5,744 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  57. 57
    OpenBitFunOpen Source

    OpenBitFun combines a high-performance agent runtime written in Rust with a polished desktop application

    Developer ToolsFree4,010 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  58. 58
    openbotOpen Source

    A local-first desktop workspace for persistent AI teammates

    Developer ToolsFree6,980 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  59. 59
    OpenBotOpen Source

    Open-source AI coworkers that each get a computer of their own: a browser, files and tools, with every action decided before it happens and…

    Developer ToolsFree10,937 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  60. 60
    openmotionOpen Source

    The open-source full-stack studio for Opus 5.5 motion video

    Developer ToolsFree9,504 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  61. 61
    openscienceOpen Source

    The open-source AI workbench for scientific research

    Developer ToolsFree4,368 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  62. 62
    orcaOpen Source

    Orca lets you run a fleet of coding agents (e.g

    Developer ToolsFree122,034 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  63. 63
    page-agentOpen Source

    Control web interfaces with natural language

    Developer ToolsFree29,664 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  64. 64
    parlantOpen Source

    Parlant is an open platform for building customer-facing chat agents with AI

    Developer ToolsFree18,332 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  65. 65
    PI-DesktopOpen Source

    Local-first AI coding agent desktop: Electron + Rust host core + pi Agent Harness + user-installable plugins

    Developer ToolsFree7,912 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  66. 66
    presentonOpen Source

    Open-Source AI Presentation Generator and API (Gamma, Canva, Beautiful AI, Decktopus, Presentations AI Alternative)

    Developer ToolsFree11,856 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  67. 67
    PyRITOpen Source

    Open-source AI red teaming toolkit from Microsoft

    Developer ToolsFree4,789 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  68. 68
    pythonOpen Source

    Open-source Python challenge courses — your AI coding agent teaches, verify.py decides when you're done

    Developer ToolsFree4,199 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  69. 69
    qwen-codeOpen Source

    An open-source AI coding agent that lives in your terminal

    Developer ToolsFree29,396 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  70. 70
    Rapid-MLXOpen Source

    Rapid-MLX is an open-source (Apache 2.0) OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible LLM inference server for Apple Silicon, built on MLX, focused on…

    Developer ToolsFree4,131 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  71. 71

    Describe an app and watch it get built, hosted and deployed in the browser.

    Developer ToolsFreemiumbrowser ide
    4,230upvotes
  72. 72

    High-performance AI pipeline engine with a C++ core and 50+ Python-extensible nodes

    Developer ToolsFree20,065 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  73. 73
    serenaOpen Source

    A powerful MCP toolkit for coding, providing semantic retrieval and editing capabilities - the IDE for your agent

    Developer ToolsFree31,296 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  74. 74
    sglangOpen Source

    SGLang is a high-performance serving framework for large language models and multimodal models

    Developer ToolsFree38,739 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  75. 75
    solidcraftOpen Source

    SolidCraft: an open-source parametric 3D CAD application built in pure Rust

    Developer ToolsFree15,678 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  76. 76
    sphereOpen Source

    A Web3 wallet and agent platform for the Unicity network - crypto wallet, DMs, group chat, and marketplace

    Developer ToolsFree9,629 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  77. 77
    switchOpen Source

    Open-source AI teammates in Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram and Mattermost

    Developer ToolsFree4,369 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  78. 78
    tabbyOpen Source

    Self-hosted AI coding assistant

    Developer ToolsFree33,936 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  79. 79
    thinkrailOpen Source

    ThinkRail is the agentic IDE that gets better every time you use it

    Developer ToolsFree8,157 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  80. 80
    Trail-CodeOpen Source

    One shared memory for every coding agent on your team

    Developer ToolsFree11,200 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  81. 81
    tuiosOpen Source

    A terminal window manager that knows what your agents are doing

    Developer ToolsFree6,493 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  82. 82

    Generate React and Tailwind interfaces you can actually ship.

    Developer ToolsFreemiumreact
    4,660upvotes
  83. 83
    vibe-kanbanOpen Source

    Get 10X more out of Claude Code, Codex or any coding agent

    Developer ToolsFree28,651 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  84. 84
    vllmOpen Source

    A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs

    Developer ToolsFree96,742 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  85. 85

    A terminal rebuilt for the way people actually work today.

    Developer ToolsFreemiumterminal
    2,140upvotes
  86. 86
    web-llmOpen Source

    High-performance In-browser LLM Inference Engine

    Developer ToolsFree19,367 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  87. 87
    wigoloOpen Source

    The go-to web for your AI coding agent — local-first search, fetch, crawl & research over MCP

    Developer ToolsFree5,539 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes
  88. 88

    An IDE built on the idea that the agent should know what you just did.

    Developer ToolsFreemiumide
    3,410upvotes
  89. 89
    worldmonitorOpen Source

    Real-time global intelligence dashboard

    Developer ToolsFree90,480 starsOpen Source
    0upvotes